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Green South Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Environment$1.7MArts & Culture$1.6MEducation$606kPublic Benefit$330kPhilanthropy$235kRecreation & Sports$120kScience & Tech$40k
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $1k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $231k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
$55,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDS$230,000
CATAWBA COLLEGE$194,639
AMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION$130,000
OCMULGEE NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE INITIATIVE$120,000
MOUNTAINTRUE$100,000
HACKS HACKERS$100,000
OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST$100,000
POTENTIAL ENERGY COALITION$100,000
GRIST$80,000
JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS$62,500
RE WILD$60,000
JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS$59,211
JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS$55,000
THE CONSESRVATION FUND$50,000
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 86% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DEPLOY US INC: $100k → 16%CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $200k → 12%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $50k → 12%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $50k → 17%THE FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $200k → 14%RESOURCE MEDIA: $50k → 8%UNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION: $48k → 10%MOUNTAINTRUE: $100k → 12%CATAWBA COLLEGE: $195k → 15%GA TECH FOUNDATION: $40k → 13%OCMULGEE NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE INITIATIVE: $120k → 23%GRIST MAGAZINE: $100k → 9%THE CONSESRVATION FUND: $50k → 7%NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL: $50k → 12%DEPLOY US INC: $100k → 16%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $50k → 12%OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST: $100k → 17%THE FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $100k → 14%UNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION: $43k → 10%CATAWBA COLLEGE: $88k → 15%GRIST: $80k → 9%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $72k → 12%POTENTIAL ENERGY COALITION: $100k → 17%HACKS HACKERS: $50k → 14%CATAWBA COLLEGE: $70k → 15%GRIST MAGAZINE: $80k → 9%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $66k → 12%POTENTIAL ENERGY COALITION: $50k → 17%HACKS HACKERS: $100k → 14%GRIST MAGAZINE: $80k → 9%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $63k → 12%HACKS HACKERS: $50k → 14%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $63k → 12%ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS: $105k → 17%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $59k → 12%ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS: $75k → 17%HACKS HACKERS: $50k → 14%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $55k → 12%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $55k → 12%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $53k → 12%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $50k → 12%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $50k → 12%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $48k → 12%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $46k → 12%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $45k → 12%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $45k → 12%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $43k → 12%JOURNALISM FUNDING PARTNERS: $41k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
WI
NY
MA
OR
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 13 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$3.3M
$356k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+5%

Still filing today

92%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $749k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentPublic BenefitEducationArts & CultureAnimalsEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • Journalism Funding Partners
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +102%
  • CC
    CATAWBA COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $352k · revenue +215%
  • FF
    FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
    2× · 2022–2023 · $300k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $230k · revenue +40%
  • RM
    RESOURCE MEDIA
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -34%
  • GT
    GA TECH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $40k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
2
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
3
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment
4
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
5
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
6
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
7
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…

Environment
8
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
9
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
10
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
11
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
12
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resource Media; the most unlike its peers is Chapel & York Us Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 31 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Grist Magazine Inc: $340,000 · EnvironmentGrist Magazine IncTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $230,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC: $200,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION …DEPLOYUS INC: $200,000 · EnvironmentDEPLOYUS INCOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST …MountainTrue: $100,000 · EnvironmentMountainTrueNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCI…RESOURCE MEDIA: $50,000 · Environment+3 more: $6,000 · EnvironmentJournalism Funding Partners: $1,278,924 · EmploymentJournalism Funding PartnersCATAWBA COLLEGE: $352,017 · EducationCATAWBA COLLEG…HACKS HACKERS: $250,000 · EducationHACKS HACKERSCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $230,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · Arts & CultureFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $300,000 · Public BenefitPULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $30,000 · Public BenefitPotential Energy Coalition Inc: $150,000 · OtherPotential En…THE CONSESRVATION FUND: $50,000 · OtherTHE CONSESRV…GA TECH FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherGA TECH FOUN…CONSERVING CAROLINA: $19,000 · OtherOCMULGEE NATIONAL PARK & PRESERVE INITIATIVE INC: $120,000 · OtherOCMULGEE NAT…REWILD: $60,000 · OtherREWILDCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $50,000 · OtherCENTER FOR B…SOUTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 · Other+3 more: $11,000 · OtherROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $220,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy
Environment$1,326,000Employment$1,278,924Education$602,017Arts & Culture$360,000Public Benefit$330,000Other$520,000Philanthropy$235,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJournalism Funding Partners: $1,278,924 over 3y, 18% of budgetCATAWBA COLLEGE: $352,017 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $340,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT: $300,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHACKS HACKERS: $250,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetCREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $230,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $220,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CONSERVATION COALITION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetDEPLOYUS INC: $200,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPotential Energy Coalition Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY RADIO FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetOCMULGEE NATIONAL PARK & PRESERVE INITIATIVE INC: $120,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE LAND TRUST INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMountainTrue: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREWILD: $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE MEDIA: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPULITZER CENTER ON CRISIS REPORTING: $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTH CAROLINA FARM BUREAU LAND TRUST INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMATE RIDE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACOIMA BEAUTIFUL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The William & Flora H…The Richards Foundati…United States Energy …The Hartfield Fdn Inc…Silicon Valley Commun…John D and Catherine …The Argosy FoundationDoris Duke Charitable…Rockefeller Brothers …Resources Legacy FundFoundation to Promote…Charles Stewart Mott …
The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA20.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Richards Foundation · United States Energy Foundation · The Hartfield Fdn Inc 0739-80-42 · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Argosy Foundation · Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Resources Legacy Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Green South Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Green South Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Green South Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Green South Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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